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Health and Defiency: Maria McErlane

Wearing boots that make you 8in taller has to be a good thing, especially if those boots have a heavy-duty convex plastic strip that allows you to bounce where once you would have teetered. While they have not made it to the catwalk yet, it can only be a matter of time. I am, of course, talking about Kangoo Jumps: “A revolution in exercise where 80% of impact is absorbed.”

As someone with the clickiest, crumbliest knees in Christendom, I was certainly sceptical, but having strapped on my Kangoos for a 30-minute jog/bounce (equivalent to an hour in trainers) every day for the past week, my joints remain painless. Yes, people laughed openly, but anything that can put a spring in my step as I lurch, kicking and screaming, into my twilight years is fine by me.

As each boot weighs 3lb, a certain amount of resistance training is thrown